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Valerie Brown (PhD Student, Statistics and Stochastic Modeling): First year student; project not selected.
Kate Creswell (Post-doctoral scholar): Implications of climate change for penguin life histories and population dynamics
Edward Dick (PhD Student Ocean, Sciences): Origin and implications of an age and size dependent maternal effect in the rockfish
Emma Pulleva (Undergraduate research student): Climate change and salmonids
Kate Richerson (Assistant to Marc Mangel): Modeling ozone depletion and surface UV in the southern ocean; Ecosystem effects of fishery certification
Lucinda Robledo (PhD Student, Statistics and Stochastic Modeling [Applied Mathematics Track]): Incorporating uncertainty into lifetime egg production calculations for rockfish
Will Satterthwaite (Post-doctoral scholar): Models of water policy and steelhead life histories
Chris Simon (PhD Student, Statistics and Stochastic Modeling, mainly working with Hongyun Wang): Inferring the potentials in molecular motors (supervised by Hongyun Wang); Models for growth of steelhead trout
David Swank (Post-doctoral scholar): Empirical studies of steelhead growth in the lab and the field
John Wiedenmann (PhD Student Ocean Sciences): Implications of climate change for biomass of southern ocean krill and their pelagic predators
...a scientist's achievement may lie in many different areas: As an innovator (new discoveries, new theories, new concepts), as a synthesiser (bringing together scattered information, sharing relationships and interactions, particularly between different disciplines, like genetics and taxonomy), as a disseminator (presenting specialized information and theory in such a way that it becomes accessible to non-specialists [popularizer is a misleading term]), as a compiler or cataloguer, as an analyst (dissecting complex issues, clarifying matters by suggesting new terminologies, etc.), and in other ways.'
Ernst Mayr to Will Provine (1979), quoted in W. Provine. 2005. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 20:411
Stephens, A. 2005. Assessment in Salmon and Groundfish Fisheries. PhD dissertation, Ocean Sciences
Siegfried, Kate I.2006 Fishery Management in Data-Limited Situations: Application to stock assessment, marine reserve design, and fish by-catch policy. PhD dissertation, Environmental Studies
Johnson, L. 2006. Mathematical Modeling of Cholera: From Bacterial Life Histories to Human Epidemics. PhD dissertation, Physics
N. Wolf 2006. Understanding the Decline of The Western Alaskan Steller Sea Lion: Assessing the Evidence Concerning Multiple Hypothesis. Dr. Philosoph dissertation University of Bergen
S. Eliassen 2006. Foraging Ecology and Learning. Adpative behavioural strategies and the value of information. Dr. Philosoph dissertation University of Bergen
A. Patil. 2007. Bayesian Nonparametrics for Inference of Ecological Dynamics. PhD Dissertation, Statistics and Stochastic Modeling
Y. Lucero. 2007. Population Consequneces of Age-Dependent Maternal Effects in Rockfish (Sebastes spp.). PhD dissertation, Ocean Sciences
1980-82 Larry Karp (PhD student, Agricultural Economics). Currently: Department of Natural Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley (Web page)
1980-83 Spiro Stefanou (PhD student, Agricultural Economics). Currently: Department of Agricultural and Rural Economics, Pennsylvania State University (Web page)
1981-82 Jay Beder (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
1983-84 Leann Sucht (Senior thesis student)
1983-5 Carl Lindvahl (Senior thesis student). Currently: University of Arkansas
1984-87 Craig Peters (PhD student, Applied Mathematics). Currently: Barclays International Bank
1984-89 Jose Goulart(PhD student, Applied Mathematics). Currently: Government of Portugal Representative to the OECD, Paris, France
1985-90 Jon Brodziak(PhD student, Applied Mathematics). Currently: NMFS Pacific Islands Center, Honolulu, HI (Web page)
1986-87 Thomas Chin (Senior thesis student).
1986-88 Margaret Klosek (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: NIH
1986-88 Richard Gomulkiewicz (PhD student, Applied Mathematics; Alan Hastings supervisor). Currently: Departments of Mathematics and Zoology, Washington State University (Web page)
1987-89 Kerry Little (MS student, Applied Mathematics)
1988-90 Becky Phillips (MS student, Applied Mathematics)
1988-92 Amos Bouskila (PhD student, Ecology). Currently: Department of Zoology, Ben-Gurion University (Web page)
1988-90 Erick Greene (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: University of Montana
1989-90 Robert Costantino (Sabbatical visitor from University of Rhode Island)
1989-95 Michael Maxwell (PhD student, Animal Behavior). Currently: Department of Biology, University of San Diego
1990-92 Jennifer Garrison (Senior thesis student; Departmental Citation, Department of Zoology, UCD, 1992). Currently: Livermore National Laboratory
1990-92 Margaret Hatch (Senior thesis student; Departmental Citation, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Biology, 1992)
1990-95 George Heimpel (PhD student, Entomology). Currently: Department of Entomology, Univesity of Minnesota (Web page)
1990-92 Jonathan Losos (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: Harvard University (Web page 1; Web page 2)
1990-92 Bill Morris (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently Duke University
1990-93 Sonia Sultan (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently Wesleyan University (Web page)
1991-97 Barney Luttbeg (PhD student, Population Biology). Currently: Staff Research Associate, UC Davis
1991-92 Lisa Baloian (Senior thesis student, Departmental Citation, Department of Zoology, 1992; Mary Regan Meyer Prize, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences, UCD, 1992)
1991-93 Fred Adler (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: University of Utah (Web page 1; Web page 2)
1991-93 Peter Nonacs (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: University of California, Los Angeles
1991-93 Bob Lalonde (Postdoctoral colleague): Currently: University of British Columbia, Kelowna (Web page)
1992-97 Shea Gardner (PhD student, Population Biology). Currently: Staff Member, Livermore National Laboratory
1993-94 Locke Rowe (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: University of Toronto (Web page)
1994-95 Jane Brockman (Sabbatical Visitor from University of Florida, Fall term)
1994-95 Thomas Moore (Senior thesis student). Currently: California Department of Fish and Game
1994-95 Christine Genova (Senior thesis student)
1994-95 Jacqueline Jacobsen (Senior thesis student)
1994-96 Tim Collier (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: University of Wyomin
1995-96 Paul Switzer (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: Eastern Illinois University (Web page)
1995-96 Mark Abrahams (Sabbtical Visitor from University of Manitoba)
1996-2002 Angie Shelton (PhD student, Environmental Studies). Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Indiana University
1996-2002 Chris Wilcox (PhD student, Environmental Studies). Currently: Senior Research Scientist CSIRO, Hobart (Web page)
1997-98 Muriel Ney-Niffle (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: CNRS, Lyon France (Web page 1; Web page 2)
1997-98 Tamar Keasar (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
1998-2006 Suzanne Alonzo (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: Yale University (Web page)
1998-99 Daniel Berman (Senior thesis student)
1998-99 Brent Levin (Senior thesis student)
1999-2000 Katriona Shea (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: Pennsylvania State University (Web page)
2000-01 Azure Westwood (Senior thesis student)
2000-01 Elizabeth Howard (Senior thesis student; Highest Honors, Environmental Studies, UCSC 2002)
2000-01 Jarl Giske (Sabbatical visitor from University of Bergen)
2000-05 Andi Stephens (PhD student, Ocean Sciences). Currently: Fishery Biologist, South Atlantic Fishery Management Council
2000-06 Nicholas Wolf (PhD student, Bology, University of Bergen). Currently: Senior Engineer, Akeena Solar, Los Gatos, CA
2001-02 Elaine Chow (Senior thesis student). Currently: PhD student (Plant Biology) UC Davis
2001-02 Daphne Geringer (Senior thesis student)
2001-02 Holly Kindsvater (Senior thesis student; Dean's Award for Undergraduate Research, 2002)
2001-03 Teresa Ish (MS student, Ocean Sciences), Currently: Environmental Defense (Web page)
2001-06 Leah Johnson (PhD student, Physics). Currently: Postdoctoral Fellow, Centre for Statistical Ecology, University of Cambridge
2002-06 Kate Siegfried (PhD student, Environmental Studies). Currently: Research Fishery Biologist, NMFS Panama City Laboratory, Panama City, FL
2002-06 Sigrunn Eliassen (PhD student, Biology, University of Bergen). Currently: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Biology, University of Bergen
2002-03 Megan Atecheson (Senior thesis student). Currently: PhD student, University of Washington
2002-03 Matt Kerby (Senior thesis student)
2002-03 Brycen Swart (Senior thesis student). Currently: PhD student, Oregon Stae University
2002-03 Melissa Snover (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: NMFS Pacific Islands Center, February 2005)
2002-05 Steve Munch (Postdoctoral colleague). Currently: SUNY Stonybrook
2002-07 Yasmin Lucero (PhD student, Ocean Sciences, and NMFS-Sea Grant Fellow). Currently: NRC Post-doctoral Fellow, Northwest Fishery Science Center
2003-04 Michael Bonsall (Royal Society Research Fellow, visiting from Imperial College, Winter and Spring terms)
2003-04 Kai Lorenzen (Sabbatical visitor from Imperial College, Fall term)
2003-06 Dan Merl (PhD student, Computer Science; Raquel Prado supervisor). Currently: Postdoctoral fellow, Duke University
2003-07 Anand Patil (PhD student, Statistics and Stochastic Modeling). Currently: Staff Scientist, The Malaria Atlas
2004-08 Christine Alfano (visiting PhD student, Wildlife Ecology, University of Minnesota). Currently: US Fish and Wildlife Service Scientist
2004-05 Seichii Oyamada (Senior thesis student)
2004-05 Katy Doctor (Assistant). Currently: PhD student, Fisheries, University of Washington
2004-05 Ricardo Lemos (Visiting Graduate student, University of Lisbon, Fall term)
2004-05 Hiroshi Hakoyama (Research Visitor from the Stock Assessment Division, National Research Institute of Fisheries Science, Japan, Winter term)
2005-06 Austin Johnson (Senior thesis student)
2005-06 Chris Simon (Assistant). Currently: PhD student, Statistics and Stochastic Modeling, UCSC
2005-08 Matt Taddy (PhD Student of Thanasis Kottas and Bruno Sanso). Currently: Graduate School of Business, University of Chicago
2006-07 Jaqueline Campos (Assistant). Currently: Biotechnology industry
2007-08 Stephanie Carlson (NSF Bioinformatics Post-doc). Currently: Department of Environmental Science, Policy, and Management, University of California, Berkeley
2007-08 Erin Middleton (Undergraduate research student). Currently: English teacher in France.
Richard Feynman's Advice to Koichi Mano on Picking Problems in Science
The worthwhile problems are the ones you can really solve or help solve, the ones you can really contribute something to. A problem is grand in science if it lies before us unsolved and we see some way for us to make a little headway into it. I would advise you to take even simpler, or as you say, humbler, problems until you find some you can really solve easily, no matter how trivial. You will get the pleasure of success, and of helping your fellow man, even if it is only to answer a question in the mind of a colleague less able than you. You must not take away from yourself these pleasures because you have some erroneous idea of what is worthwhile.
You met me at the peak of my career when I seemed to you to be concerned with problems close to the gods. But at the same time, I had another Ph.D. student (Albert Hibbs) whose thesis was on how it is that the winds build up waves blowing over water in the sea. I accepted him as a student because he came to me with the problem he wanted to solve.
...No problem is too small or too trivial if we can really do something about it. You say you are a nameless man. You are not to your wife and to your child. You will not long remain so to your immediate colleagues if you can answer their simple questions when they come into your office. You are not nameless to me. Do not remain nameless to yourself -- it is too sad a way to be. Know your place in the world and evaluate yourself fairly, not in terms of ideals of your own youth, nor in terms of what you erroneously imagine your teacher's ideals are.
pg 198-199 in M. Feynman. 2005. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track. The Letters of Richard Feynman. Basic Books
These consist of assisting graduate students, post-docs, and me in aspects of our research; independent studies; internships and senior theses (requiring at least a 2 quarter, and preferably 3 quarter, commitment). The senior thesis is a research project that the student and I design together, to match both of our interests. Some examples of senior theses that I supervised since 1990 are Locomotor abilities and habitat choice in anolis lizards; Cost of the facultative dauer stage in nematode life histories; Barn owl traffic-related mortality and its implications; Conflict resolution for endangered species problems; Diet choice in hydra; Effects of the 1976 Oceanic Regime Shift on Coho Salmon Populations; A Meta-Data Dictionary for Santa Cruz County GIS; An Environmental Perspective to Using Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQs) to Manage New England Groundfish; Insect Behavior and Trap-Crop Design; Effects of Nodulation Outweigh Compensatory Growth Response After Minereal Nitrogen Deprivation in Medicago polymophra; Spatial and Temporal Patterns of Glucosinolates in Raphanus sativus After Induction by Jasmonic Acid; The Impacts of Entrainment on Larval Fish Populations; Life history variation, growth and smolt transformation in steelhead trout; An Analysis of Juvenile Survival Rate to Smolt Age, in the San Lorenzo River; Econmic analysis of vessel price as a response to fishery regulation; Species-area relations in the context of marine reserves; and Detecting density dependence in seal population dynamics
John Bahcall's advice to young scientists
•Choose important problems
•Get involved with real data
•Bring the most powerful analytic tools to bear on the problem at hand
from W.H. Press. 1997. Understanding data better with Bayesian and global statistical methods. pg 49-60 in Unsolved Problems in Astrophysics (J.H. Bahcall and J.P. Ostriker, editors), Princeton University Press
Hans Krebs's advice to students who ask about how to attain distinction in science:
To attain distinction in scientific research you must
--get a post-doctoral Fellowship, which will give you the time and opportunity to test yourself;
--attach yourself to a centre of excellence;
--work hard and make the fullest use of the time and facilities that the Fellowship affords;
--from time to time, search your heart critically, with the help of objective critics, to find out whether you really possess the right mixture of qualities -- urge, commitment, imagination, humility-- which are the roots of creativity in science.
from HA Krebs.1981.Remiscences and Reflections. Oxford University Press (pg 179)
1990
Erick Greene (PD), Dhobzhansky Prize, Society for the Study of Evolution
1992
Lisa Baloian (UG), Departmental Citation, Department of Zoology; Mary Regan Meyer Prize, College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences
Amos Bouskila (G), R. Merton Love Award for the Best Dissertation in Ecology
Shea Gardner (G), NSF predoctoral fellowship
Jennifer Garrison (UG), Departmental Citation, Department of Zoology,
Margaret Hatch (UG), Departmental Citation, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Biology
1993
Jon Brodziak (GS 1984-90), Outstanding Performance Award, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Danielle Bruno (UG), Departmental Citation, Department of Zoology
Paulette Razy (UG), Departmental Citation, Department of Wildlife and Fisheries Biology,
Locke Rowe (PD), Young Investigator Award, American Society of Naturalists
1994
Jon Brodziak (GS 1984-90), NOAA Citation
Jonathan Losos (PD 1990-92), Fellowship in Science and Engineering, David and Lucile Packard Foundation
1995
Jon Brodziak (GS 1984-90), Outstanding Performance Award, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
George Heimpel (G), USDA Postdoctoral fellowship
Mike Maxwell (G), National Research Council Postdoctoral Research Associateship
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award
1996
George Heimpel (G), John Kinsella College of Agriculture and Environmental College dissertation excellence award. University of California, Davis
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award
Angie Shelton (G), NSF Predoctoral fellowship
Chris Wilcox (G), Switzer Environmental Leadership Grant
1997
Jon Brodziak (GS 1984-90), Outstanding Performance Award, Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Shea Gardner (G), Centre for Population Biology, Imperial College, Postdoctoral fellowship
George Heimpel (G, 1989-95), USDA Postdoctoral fellowship; NSF Postdoctoral fellowship
Tamar Keasar (PD), Fulbright Scholar, Israel
Muriel Ney-Niffle (PD), Fulbright Scholar, France
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award
1998
Edgar Rene Becerra (UG), Honors in Environmental Studies
Jonathan Losos (PD 1990-92), David Starr Jordan Przie
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award
1999
Suzane Alonzo (PD), NSF Postdoctoral Fellowship in Biological Informatics
Daniel Berman (UG), Honors in Marine Biology
Locke Rowe (PD, 1993-94), Premier's Research Excellence Award, University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award
2000
Michael Maxwell (GS, 1989-95), Chapter in book The praying mantids; book earned Honorable Mention (Assocation of American Publishers' "Outstanding Professional and Scholarly Title of 1999").
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award
2001
George Heimpel (G, 1989-95), McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota
Beth Howard (UG), Undergraduate Minigrant, Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems; Honors in Environmental Studies and Biology
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award
2002
Megan Atcheson (U), Research award, Friends of Long Marine Laboratory
Shea Gardner (G, 1992-97) Science and Technology Award for computational pathogen assay development, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
Teresa Ish (G), Best Poster by a Young Investigator, Fourth William R. and Lenore Mote Internationl Symposium 'Confronting Trade-offs in the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management', Sarasota, FL November
Yasmin Lucero (G), NMFS-Sea Grant Graduate Fellowship; NSF Graduate Fellowhship Honorable Mention
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award
Melissa Snover (PD), National Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship
Chris Wilcox (G), Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellowship (renewed 2004)
2003
Megan Atcheson (U), Research Grant, Dr Earl H. Myers and Ethel M. Myers, Oceanographic and Marine Biology Trust. From the call for proposals "Under the terms of the will of Ethel M. Myers, a Trust has been established to award grants for the enhancement of studies in the marine sciences, including conservation and science education. The target awardees are Master's Degree and Ph.D. candidates, or other persons deemed worthy by the Trustees. Limited consideration may be given to undergraduates. "
Jon Brodziak (GS 1984-90), Fellow, American Institute of Fishery Research Biologists; NOAA Bronze Medal Award; NOAA Administrator's Award
Holly Kindsvater (U), Dean's Undergraduate Research Award (for her senior thesis)
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award
2004
Jon Brodziak (GS 1984-90), NOAA Bronze Medal Award, NOAA General Counsel's Award
Shea Gardner (GS 1992-97) Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Computing Applications and Research Department award for leading research to support the Centers for Disease Control
Holly Kindsvater (U, 2001-2004) University of Florida President's Graduate Fellowship
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award; Canada Research Chair in Evolutionary Ecology; Ontario Distinguished Researcher Award
Katriona Shea (PD, 1999-2001) Edward D. Bellis Award for outstanding contribution and dedication to educating and training graduate students in the Ecology Program at Penn State
Kate Siegfried (G), Graduate Fellowship from The Nature Conservancy, to work on marine reserves
2005
Leah Johnson (G), UC President's Dissertation Year Fellowship
Tamar Keasar (PD 1997-99), First Prize, Poster Competition, Israeli Entomlogical Society
Holly Kindsvater (U, 2001-04), EPA Star Fellowship
Jonathan Losos (PD 1990-92), John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
Barney Luttbeg (G, 1991-97) President's Award, American Society of Naturalists (for the best paper in The American Naturalist, 2004)
Michael Maxwell (G, 1989-95) Entry in Encyclopedia of animal behavior; encyclopedia won Best Reference Source of 2004 (Library Journal).
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): University of Toronto Dean's Excellence Award
2006
Teresa Ish (G, 2001-2003): Best Paper Award, NMFS Economics and Social Science Conference
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): Faculty of Arts and Science Outstanding Teaching Award; E.W.R. Steacie Memorial Fellowship
Kate Siegfried (G, 2002-2006): Best Poster by a Young Investigator, Sixth William R. and Lenore Mote International Symposium
2007
Suzanne Alonzo (PD, 1998-2004): Senior Reseach Fellowship, Jesus College (Oxford) Michaelmas term
Leah Johnson (GS, 2002-06): College Research Associate, Jesus College (Cambridge)
Michael Maxwell (GS, 1989-95): National University Presidential Award; National University Presidential Scholar
2008
Katy Doctor (RA, 2003-04): Fulbright Fellowship (to Chile)
Larry Karp (GS 1980-82): Elected Fellow American Association of Agricultural Economics
Jonathan Losos (PD 1990-92): Elected President of the American Society of Naturalists
Yasmin Lucero (GS 2002-07): Fellow, Women Evolving Biological Science
Michael Maxwell (GS, 1989-95): National University Presidential Scholar
Locke Rowe (PD 1993-94): Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council Accelerator Award; University of Toronto Dean?s Excellence Award
In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment, and a very easy one, but people do not practise it very much. In the everyday affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically, for one who can reason analytically...Let me see if I can make it clearer. Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would be. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would be able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backward, or analytically.
Sherlock Holmes to John H. Watson, M.D.; as reported by Watson in Chapter 7 of A Study in Scarlet reprinted in Doyle. A.C. 1970. The Complete Sherlock Holmes. Doubleday, NY